University of Bengkulu Law Journal aims to provide a venue for academicians, researchers and practitioners for publishing the original research articles or review articles. The scope of the articles published in this journal deal with a broad range of topics in the fields of Criminal Law, Civil Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Administrative Law, Islamic Law, Medical Law, Environmental Law and another section related contemporary issues in law.
The research article submitted to this online journal will be peer-reviewed at least by two independent reviewers with double blind peer review type. The final decision of the acceptance or rejection of the article is made by Editor-in-Chief based on the comments given by the reviewers. Screening of plagiarism will be done by utilizing Google Scholar and/or Viper. The accepted research articles will be available online following the journal peer-reviewing process.
Publication Frequency
April and October
Open Access Policy
University of Bengkulu Law Journal provides open access directly to content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports global exchanges that are greater than knowledge. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full text of this article, or use it for other legitimate purposes under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Sources of Support
University of Bengkulu
Journal History
UBELAJ (University of Bengkulu Law Journal) is a legal scientific journal, published by the Faculty of Law, University of Bengkulu. UBELAJ is a forum to publish the results of research conducted by researchers specifically in the fields of law, namely civil law, civil law, constitutional law, international law, legal administration, Islamic law, health law, environmental law, and all legal issues. UBELAJ is published twice a year in April and October. Articles that have been received will be published online and printed.
UBELAJ was published since 2016 by the University of Bengkulu Faculty of Law which is located at JL. WR. Supratman, Kandang Limun Bengkulu. UBELAJ is registered with P-ISSN Number 2541-1926 and E-ISSN 2528-7656.
Articles submitted to UBELAJ will go through a blind reviewer in accordance with their scientific competencies. UBELAJ in 2019 became a member of CROSSREFF, therefore every article issued will have a DOI number. UBELAJ in 2019 enrolled ARJUNA and conducted a self evaluation. UBELAJ will make a National Accreditation submission and in the near future try to be accredited to SINTA.
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Author Guidelines
The aims of this journal is to provide a venue for academicians, researchers and practitioners for publishing the original research articles or review articles. The scope of the articles published in this journal deal with a broad range of topics in the fields of Criminal Law, Private Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law, Islamic Law, Environmental Law, Medical Law, Economic Law, Local Wisdom Law, Labor Law and another section related contemporary issues in law.
Manuscripts or articles are sent in a soft copy of Microsoft Word files, through an online system by registering first at the address https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/index.php/ubelaj/user/register and via e-mail ubelaj@unib.ac.id, typed using A4 paper sizes, Times New Roman font size 12 except abstracts and tables with font size 10, left and right margins 2.5 cm, top and bottom margins 2.5 cm. Written in space 2 (for the review process) and the total number of pages is no more than 30 pages.
Excel formatted tables, JPEG format images, graphics and the like are placed into text manuscripts.
Original Manuscript / Original article must be harmonized in the title (in Indonesian and English, introduction, method, results and Analysis, conclusions, Acknowledgments and Reference
TITLE is written in Indonesian (font 14) if the article is in Indonesian, if the text is in English then there is no need for an Indonesian title, font 14), the number of words does not exceed 15 (fifteen) words. The author's name, institution and address, including the author's e-mail are written under the title.
ABSTRACT, written in English, is short and dense and below is written Key words or keywords 4-6 words. The number of words in Abstract is no more than 300 words with 1 space
ABSTRACT, written in Indonesian, short and solid and written below are keywords. The number of words in Abstract is no more than 300 words 1 space.
INTRODUCTION, contains background research based on relevant library materials, research objectives, should be clear and provide the issue to be discussed in the manuscript.
METHODS, contains the material and methods used in the study in detail. The Method are written in descriptive and should provide a statement regarding the methodology of the research. The method are optional, only for original research articles.
RESULTS AND ANALYSIS, contains the result of analysis and discussion of the object of study. The analysis or results of the research should be clear and concise. The results should summarize (scientific) findings rather than providing data in great detail. Please highlight differences between your results or findings and the previous publications by other researchers.
CONCLUSION, Conclusion contains a description that should answer the objectives of research. Provide a clear and concise conclusion.
REFERENCES, arranged by loading names alphabetically, year, title, Publisher, City, page without serial number. Contains at least 7 (seven) scientific journals.